1979 Season Thread - Page 2

muns · 10-10-2008, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by kaosfere

Righto! Over to the FLOP side with me, then.

you had a nice turnaround yourself Kaos.... Dont think we didnt notice... Gonna be an interesting offseason for you me thinks...

kaosfere · 10-10-2008, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by muns

you had a nice turnaround yourself Kaos.... Dont think we didnt notice... Gonna be an interesting offseason for you me thinks...

Yeah. I'm not losing anyone big, and I'll get out from under the $12 million contract that Corona decided he didn't want to earn any more. Should be able to power up a bit.

But Baltimore's not losing talent any time soon, it looks like. I predict they'll have another year or three of excelling, which might take me out of my window.

Time will tell!

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 10:47 PM

Another .500 season. I guess it was a mistake to stick with the same team. I really think the talent is here to be better than this. I need to figure out what's holding us back and get rid of it.

As it turns out, I was only a little off on my predictions (three games and one spot in the standings), but still disappointing. Just three games back of kaos for second. A rollercoaster season. Started bad, got good, fell back to average.

Congrats again to ekcut, who clearly has a phenomenal team over there. And maybe muns will work his magic this year. Congrats to muns, too.

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 10:54 PM

Oh, I misread kaos's record. I was nowhere near second, just Alan in third. Wow, kaos had a nice year. Shame he's playing in the league with ekcut.

kaosfere · 10-10-2008, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Oh, I misread kaos's record. I was nowhere near second, just Alan in third. Wow, kaos had a nice year. Shame he's playing in the league with ekcut.

Yeah, well, my record would only have gotten me second in the RL, too.

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by kaosfere

Yeah, well, my record would only have gotten me second in the RL, too.

Yeah, but you would have been playing RL teams! I mean, Alan and I are 3rd and 4th. Think about that.

I know my team is good, and I suspect Alan's is, too.

Young Drachma · 10-10-2008, 11:11 PM

File is up.

Young Drachma · 10-10-2008, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Yeah, but you would have been playing RL teams! I mean, Alan and I are 3rd and 4th. Think about that.

I know my team is good, and I suspect Alan's is, too.

Ha. It's all fun and games until you get your eye poked out.

So yeah, yuck it up you silly pitcher hitters.

ha ha ha.

All I have to say is, you all wouldn't last a day in the men's league. So enjoy "smallballs" where you all feel safe and secure.

Young Drachma · 10-10-2008, 11:14 PM

Dola:

Don't make me sim games between the 2nd and 3rd place teams in both leagues. It won't be pretty.

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Ha. It's all fun and games until you get your eye poked out.

So yeah, yuck it up you silly pitcher hitters.

ha ha ha.

All I have to say is, you all wouldn't last a day in the men's league. So enjoy "smallballs" where you all feel safe and secure.

Well, it's kinda odd to respond to me, though, on that, right? After all, I dominated over there.

Young Drachma · 10-10-2008, 11:15 PM

I love how Alan and Kaos get roped in through Chief's snarkyness. It's hilarious.

muns · 10-10-2008, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

File is up.

DC I got some Error with a logo or something? any idea what thats about?

And then it went through and updated and crashed on me... anyone else get the same error?

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 11:22 PM

My game just popped up with a logo error during the download, although it still seems to be downloading just fine.

Correction, it just CTD. DC, something might be wrong with the upload.

Young Drachma · 10-10-2008, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Well, it's kinda odd to respond to me, though, on that, right? After all, I dominated over there.

The Bodycount (since 1964)
Among the owners left in the league with multiple pennants, here is the body count. I won't count my titles from 1961-1963, because I'm the only owner left from that time and it's not even fair since there were only 4-5 human owners in the league during those times.

Alan: 7 CL pennants, 4 titles
DC: 5 RL pennants, 2 titles
Chief: 5 RL pennants, 2 titles
ekcut: 2 CL pennants, 1 title (so far)
muns: 3 RL pennants, 1 title (so far)

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by muns

DC I got some Error with a logo or something? any idea what thats about?

And then it went through and updated and crashed on me...

If yours is like mine, yours will soon also crash. Glad to see it's not just me like that download issue I had this week.

Young Drachma · 10-10-2008, 11:23 PM

If you haven't patched, please do so. Then try to re-download the file.

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

The Bodycount (since 1964)
Among the owners left in the league with multiple pennants, here is the body count. I won't count my titles from 1961-1963, because I'm the only owner left from that time and it's not even fair since there were only 4-5 human owners in the league during those times.

Alan: 7 CL pennants, 4 titles
DC: 5 RL pennants, 2 titles
Chief: 5 RL pennants, 2 titles
ekcut: 2 CL pennants, 1 title (so far)
muns: 3 RL pennants, 1 title (so far)

Yeah, but you have been in the RL with human owners for 16 years. I left after the '73 season.

And besides, we can both dominate.

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

If you haven't patched, please do so. Then try to re-download the file.

Ah, will do.

muns · 10-10-2008, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum

If yours is like mine, yours will soon also crash. Glad to see it's not just me like that download issue I had this week.

lol yep it did. Now I cant even get back to fool opening. Looks like we will have to do it manually this time, unless there is something else that I dont know about?

muns · 10-10-2008, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Ah, will do.

HA HA that makes sense now doesnt it

kaosfere · 10-10-2008, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

If you haven't patched, please do so. Then try to re-download the file.

Oh. That might explain it.

I thought that Markus had said that the new patches were fully compatible.

Regardless, I was only staying behind for this league. Time to update!

kaosfere · 10-10-2008, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

I love how Alan and Kaos get roped in through Chief's snarkyness. It's hilarious.

Custom special edition "The Commish is Retiring" loser-bracket playoffs! The people demand them!

Young Drachma · 10-10-2008, 11:27 PM

Sorry, I downloaded the patch at work, since my upload times here are so slow.

muns · 10-10-2008, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Yeah, but you would have been playing RL teams! I mean, Alan and I are 3rd and 4th. Think about that.

I know my team is good, and I suspect Alan's is, too.

Wonder what the win loss record of the RL vs the CL is over the past 3 seasons????

Anthony · 10-10-2008, 11:45 PM

wow, that didn't go according to plan. lots of money spent to do...nothing.

Young Drachma · 10-10-2008, 11:52 PM

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by muns

Wonder what the win loss record of the RL vs the CL is over the past 3 seasons????

Why pick an arbitrary number? You could go further back and get some of Alan's titles, couldn't you?

Tasan · 10-10-2008, 11:53 PM

Well its nice to see I've completely dismantled a once proud, winning franchise into a team of consistent mediocrity.

No really

kaosfere · 10-10-2008, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Tasan

Well its nice to see I've completely dismantled a once proud, winning franchise into a team of consistent mediocrity.

No really

Look on the bright side: You're the #1 seed in the FLOP tourney!

Chief Rum · 10-10-2008, 11:58 PM

Man, it's taking forever for the patch to install.

kaosfere · 10-11-2008, 12:01 AM

Wow. Looks like I must eat a small dose of crow. My bullpen was only 2nd in ERA. Valdosta beat me, 2.52 to 2.54. My starters were second to Baltimore's by, also, .02, but that's better than I thought they'd be.

muns · 10-11-2008, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Why pick an arbitrary number? You could go further back and get some of Alan's titles, couldn't you?

isnt 3 seasons ago when you came back???

muns · 10-11-2008, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Man, it's taking forever for the patch to install.

agreed, my DL is going so freaking slow...

Alan T · 10-11-2008, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by kaosfere

Wow. Looks like I must eat a small dose of crow. My bullpen was only 2nd in ERA. Valdosta beat me, 2.52 to 2.54. My starters were second to Baltimore's by, also, .02, but that's better than I thought they'd be.

That shouldn't be overly suprising. I couldn't do anything to get any decent pitching in free agency (There really wasn't much out there in my opinion).. So I did the next best thing and loaded up my bullpen as best as I could and modified my strategies a little bit to accommodate.

I haven't downloaded the file yet to see how things went, but I fully expect my downfall was the lack of a dominant starting pitching staff like I had for over a decade. I pretty much used duct tape there.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2008, 12:04 AM

If you end up needing to download the entire tar.gz file, you can get it here.

kaosfere · 10-11-2008, 12:04 AM

Index of /ootp/

Might not save you much time if you're far along in your downloads, but if they're really dragging it could be faster.

Chief Rum · 10-11-2008, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by muns

isnt 3 seasons ago when you came back???

Technically, 4 seasons ago, three Classics (the only way CL vs RL can match up, of course).

That said, why should it start when I join? Unless you think CL dominance began when I joined.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2008, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Tasan

Well its nice to see I've completely dismantled a once proud, winning franchise into a team of consistent mediocrity.

No really

Nah, it's not like that. You just came in at a time when things were changing. The talent shift makes it harder to really reload like it used to be in the late 60s to lock and reload. The 80s will make it better, I think. Don't worry too much...it's just a natural evolution that you showed up in the midst of.

kaosfere · 10-11-2008, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Alan T

I haven't downloaded the file yet to see how things went, but I fully expect my downfall was the lack of a dominant starting pitching staff like I had for over a decade. I pretty much used duct tape there.

Your starters' ERA was 3.57.

Charles Wilson and Carlos Gonzalés were under 3. Whit O'Neal and Alonso Hernández over 4.

Team batting average was .259, second in the league.

Alan T · 10-11-2008, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by kaosfere

Oh. That might explain it.

I thought that Markus had said that the new patches were fully compatible.

Regardless, I was only staying behind for this league. Time to update!

My guess is they are more backwards compatible than forward compatible. (ie: if you need to run 9.2 for a league you are in, it still should work for a 9.1 league elsewhere)

I haven't tested that out though so might be wrong. I am guessing MrBug may find that out though due to his other league. (Of course mrbug may want to keep two sets of executables just so it doesn't break anything for him)

Chief Rum · 10-11-2008, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by kaosfere

Index of /ootp/

Might not save you much time if you're far along in your downloads, but if they're really dragging it could be faster.

Not a download problem actually. It's the installation time. It has been steadily "installing files" now for at least 20 minutes.

Chief Rum · 10-11-2008, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by kaosfere

Your starters' ERA was 3.57.

Charles Wilson and Carlos Gonzalés were under 3. Whit O'Neal and Alonso Hernández over 4.

Team batting average was .259, second in the league.

.259 was 2nd? That's awful.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2008, 12:09 AM

Yeah, it was clearly backwards compatible, but not the other way.

kaosfere · 10-11-2008, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum

.259 was 2nd? That's awful.

Yep. Baltimore had .271. Everyone else was between .244 and .259, except Texas at .225.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2008, 12:14 AM

In a few years, might be time to take a look at just going to the default modifiers or something. Using SkyDog's settings are cute and all, but I think as the players get worse, it's going to kill offensive production for good, especially in the CL. As if it hasn't already...going to modern baseball settings, would probably be sensible.

But we're changing enough as it is, so I'd say we shelve that talk for later. Just wanted to put that out there.

kaosfere · 10-11-2008, 12:14 AM

Hartford had a 2.79 ERA in the sissypitcher league. That's damn impressive. The second best was Chicago with 3.51.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2008, 12:18 AM

I was impressed with my team. We had no business being able to hang with them, really. I was DESPERATE to get offense and to produce runs and we did that. I'm so, so happy with that. I didn't ever expect us to catch Hartford, but we played admirably and that was...well, cool to me.

Alan T · 10-11-2008, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

In a few years, might be time to take a look at just going to the default modifiers or something. Using SkyDog's settings are cute and all, but I think as the players get worse, it's going to kill offensive production for good, especially in the CL. As if it hasn't already...going to modern baseball settings, would probably be sensible.

But we're changing enough as it is, so I'd say we shelve that talk for later. Just wanted to put that out there.

it will be interesting to see how this next wave of talent emerges in this league. Right now it feels very hitter heavy and pitcher light. That in itself might cause a hitting surge in a couple of years as they become major league ready and all of the Carlos Gonzales's of the world retire.

kaosfere · 10-11-2008, 12:21 AM

Both leagues had record low league ERAs this year. It was the second worst year on record for CL's batting average. (#5 for the RL.)

Young Drachma · 10-11-2008, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Alan T

it will be interesting to see how this next wave of talent emerges in this league. Right now it feels very hitter heavy and pitcher light. That in itself might cause a hitting surge in a couple of years as they become major league ready and all of the Carlos Gonzales's of the world retire.

Agreed. It'll be great when the star pitchers go away, because it'll make second-tier pitching elite.

10-10-2008, 10:47 PM	#53
Chief Rum Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Where Hip Hop lives	Another .500 season. I guess it was a mistake to stick with the same team. I really think the talent is here to be better than this. I need to figure out what's holding us back and get rid of it. As it turns out, I was only a little off on my predictions (three games and one spot in the standings), but still disappointing. Just three games back of kaos for second. A rollercoaster season. Started bad, got good, fell back to average. Congrats again to ekcut, who clearly has a phenomenal team over there. And maybe muns will work his magic this year. Congrats to muns, too. __________________ . . I would rather be wrong...Than live in the shadows of your song...My mind is open wide...And now I'm ready to start...You're not sure...You open the door...And step out into the dark...Now I'm ready.

10-10-2008, 10:54 PM	#54
Chief Rum Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Where Hip Hop lives	Oh, I misread kaos's record. I was nowhere near second, just Alan in third. Wow, kaos had a nice year. Shame he's playing in the league with ekcut. __________________ . . I would rather be wrong...Than live in the shadows of your song...My mind is open wide...And now I'm ready to start...You're not sure...You open the door...And step out into the dark...Now I'm ready.

10-10-2008, 11:11 PM	#57
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	File is up. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

10-10-2008, 11:14 PM	#59
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Dola: Don't make me sim games between the 2nd and 3rd place teams in both leagues. It won't be pretty. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

10-10-2008, 11:22 PM	#63
Chief Rum Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Where Hip Hop lives	My game just popped up with a logo error during the download, although it still seems to be downloading just fine. Correction, it just CTD. DC, something might be wrong with the upload. __________________ . . I would rather be wrong...Than live in the shadows of your song...My mind is open wide...And now I'm ready to start...You're not sure...You open the door...And step out into the dark...Now I'm ready.

10-10-2008, 11:15 PM	#61
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I love how Alan and Kaos get roped in through Chief's snarkyness. It's hilarious.

10-10-2008, 11:23 PM	#66
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	If you haven't patched, please do so. Then try to re-download the file. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

10-10-2008, 11:27 PM	#73
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Sorry, I downloaded the patch at work, since my upload times here are so slow. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

10-10-2008, 11:45 PM	#75
Anthony Banned Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Astoria, NY, USA	wow, that didn't go according to plan. lots of money spent to do...nothing.

10-10-2008, 11:52 PM	#76
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001

10-10-2008, 11:53 PM	#78
Tasan College Starter Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Houston, or there about	Well its nice to see I've completely dismantled a once proud, winning franchise into a team of consistent mediocrity. No really __________________ 2011 Golden Scribes winner for best Interactive Dynasty

10-10-2008, 11:58 PM	#80
Chief Rum Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Where Hip Hop lives	Man, it's taking forever for the patch to install. __________________ . . I would rather be wrong...Than live in the shadows of your song...My mind is open wide...And now I'm ready to start...You're not sure...You open the door...And step out into the dark...Now I'm ready.

10-11-2008, 12:01 AM	#81
kaosfere College Prospect Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Chicagoland	Wow. Looks like I must eat a small dose of crow. My bullpen was only 2nd in ERA. Valdosta beat me, 2.52 to 2.54. My starters were second to Baltimore's by, also, .02, but that's better than I thought they'd be. __________________ FOOL: Toronto Osprey (1973-1988) 1161 - 1149 -- 1981 FOOL Champions, 1975 CL Champions Toronto Osprey (2001) 89-73 -- 2001 CL Champions SBL: Charlotte Monarchs (1992-1994) 237 - 186

10-11-2008, 12:04 AM	#85
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	If you end up needing to download the entire tar.gz file, you can get it here.

10-11-2008, 12:09 AM	#93
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Yeah, it was clearly backwards compatible, but not the other way. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

10-11-2008, 12:14 AM	#95
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	In a few years, might be time to take a look at just going to the default modifiers or something. Using SkyDog's settings are cute and all, but I think as the players get worse, it's going to kill offensive production for good, especially in the CL. As if it hasn't already...going to modern baseball settings, would probably be sensible. But we're changing enough as it is, so I'd say we shelve that talk for later. Just wanted to put that out there. Last edited by Young Drachma : 10-11-2008 at 12:15 AM.

10-11-2008, 12:18 AM	#97
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I was impressed with my team. We had no business being able to hang with them, really. I was DESPERATE to get offense and to produce runs and we did that. I'm so, so happy with that. I didn't ever expect us to catch Hartford, but we played admirably and that was...well, cool to me.

10-11-2008, 12:21 AM	#99
kaosfere College Prospect Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Chicagoland	Both leagues had record low league ERAs this year. It was the second worst year on record for CL's batting average. (#5 for the RL.) __________________ FOOL: Toronto Osprey (1973-1988) 1161 - 1149 -- 1981 FOOL Champions, 1975 CL Champions Toronto Osprey (2001) 89-73 -- 2001 CL Champions SBL: Charlotte Monarchs (1992-1994) 237 - 186

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